Product Designer (Mid-level)

Purpose of the role

Mid-level designers largely focus on detailed design work; mostly operating alongside the team's current development efforts to evaluate and execute on the fit (vs problem), form and function of various potential solutions.

About the role

An experienced product designer who can support the growing needs of the product division.

Able to connect to product strategy through to product execution, supporting a creative, collaborative and customer-centric approach to product development.

Skills

Leadership

• Demonstrates a willingness/ability to lead smaller product design or improvement projects; driving a small group of contributors towards an incremental goal/milestone.
• Limited first-hand experience of prioritising, planning and coordinating research and design efforts across small, tightly-scoped projects; still requiring regular support and supervision.
• Limited first-hand experience of prioritising, planning and coordinating effort across a small, tightly scoped operational project or area of practice improvement; still requiring regular support and supervision.

Mentorship

• Able to provide ad-hoc guidance to immediate peers on basic design principles/best practice; maintaining an acceptable level of design quality during development.
• Contributes to a schedule of recruitment activities, meetups and other community events (where possible); actively sharing content through blog posts or talks at local events.

Role-Specific

• Experienced with applying principles of good UI/visual design (layout, colour, hierarchy, type etc.); with the ability to work with little/no supervision when designing user interfaces.
• Demonstrates best practice and depth of skill when designing interface controls, interaction patterns, paradigms and workflows to prototype ideas and solve new, complex interaction problems.
• Experienced with planning, running and analysing the feedback from evaluative research sessions, to test/validate ideas or optimise a given solution; with the ability to direct resulting improvement areas with little/no supervision.
• Limited direct experience of planning, conducting and analysing strategic research activities, necessary to discover, understand and define the scope and nature of customers' problems; still requiring regular support and supervision.
• Limited direct experience of utilising a Lean/hypothesis-driven approach to research and design. Using an experimental methodology to identify minimum viable solutions to customer's problems; iteratively validating assumptions and learning through fast, frequent feedback loops.

Communication

• Shares their design work with immediate design and engineering peers for review and regular feedback.
• Able to provide ad-hoc guidance to immediate peers on basic design principles/best practice.
• they are able to explain their reasoning and provide regular updates on progress and learning.

Emotional Intelligence

• Displays empathy towards colleagues, and users of our products.
• Able to approach challenges in an optimistic and pragmatic way.
• Able to commit to decisions even if disagreed with.

Delivery

• Routinely and independently follows a standard, visible approach to their design work and the activities they run with the product team; whilst starting to experiment with new methods, tools or techniques.
• Drives a regular cadence of research for the product team, ensuring all members of the team have regular exposure to their customers and are actively involved in the analysis and resulting decisions.

Business Knowledge

• Has a rudimentary understanding of the current strategy and objectives of the team; taking direction from an experienced designer on how best to aligns their design effort.